NOTE: There's one thing I want to clarify about this video. Although I mention that Gregorian Chant is filled with the perfect intervals that you would need to create these Tartini tones, the more accurate term would be Organum. Organum is a Gregorian Chant (plainchant) melody with at least one voice added to create a harmony. Gregorian Chant doesn't necessarily have more than one voice, and typically the second voice in the an Organum would be improvised off of the plainchant melody's manuscript, typically at the perfect intervals that you would need to create said Tartini tones. I honestly just wasn't expecting to have such in-depth questions from my viewers when I first made this video, and didn't want to clutter the video with definitions. Thank you all!
Sorry this one is a little late (and possibly low energy) I've been dealing with a fever in the 100s for the last few days. Also, I know Viacom doesn't own Disney, but with a fever of 103 and a bunch of cough syrup in your system it sure does seem possible doesn't it!?
Ever wondered what was off about recent reboots inspired by your favorite cartoons from the late 80s and early 90s? Aside from the glaring issues that the internet normally catches, let's look at another way we can tear these films apart.
Have you guys noticed how Pixar does this? I managed to find this pattern in a lot of Pixar films, even though they aren't the only (or the first!) ones to do this.
With Halloween and the scary movie season coming up, I figured it'd be worth demonstrating how you can use music to really add to a tense scene.
Have you ever tried muting your games and seeing if your rank goes up?
A few tips (or maybe just one, really big tip) on how to get over that creative rut.
Let's finally clear up some terminology issues floating around on the internet.
Before you guys get into a huge argument about this, understand that I'm talking about how this piece changed my perspective on how music can be constructed, not whether or not Schubert wanted to use that motif as a blueprint for how the piece was going to modulate, or how that motif might represent the actual Erlkönig character at all (which I'm now pretty sure I might have heard that idea from a grad student while I was at school...). Either way, this piece had a pretty profound effect on me, and I just wanted to share that.
For as much bitching as I do in this video, I really wanna remind everyone that I love, and have loved, all of the music in Warcraft so far. And this expansion is no exception, I think they did a superb job with Anduin's theme.
What was your interpretation of 4'33"? Do you know of any films or TV shows or video games where the audio department was involved from the very beginning?
It's not the size that counts, but how you use it.
Learn how to graph and chart music in a cultural context! Show off to all your friends and be "that guy" at the party!
What does your favorite hero represent?
Believe it or not, just listening to Mozart doesn't make you smarter
The DC Trinity finally came to the big screen. But what about her theme?
Get ready for an adventure in creative interpretations of music theory! Seriously though, none of this would hold up in court.
Come watch me try to pronounce "Hisaishi" for almost 15 minutes!
Ever thought about the existential randomness of the music in video games? No?.... Ok, then don't watch this video.
Who is Rey? Episode 8 had all of the answers.
I V vi IV
Note: Clock Diagrams are all about expressing Pitch Class and Interval Classes. So when you hear or seem some weird octave displacement, that's why. It's irrelevant to the lord of clocks!
Coco was a very accurate film, more accurate than you might think.
How do you know you do something well?
Could anyone guess that the guy who loves music and movies would love the movie about music?
Did you hear about the parsley farmer who didn't pay his taxes? They garnished his wages.
What happens when a film score gets stuck in your head?
And next up on the docket, a caffeine-fueled, paranoid rant about poetry. And I want to really clear something up here, I'm not complaining about all Spoken Word. It's just, when you have something that could be Rap, but is called Spoken Word, then what are we really getting from that?
This is an objective truth and if you disagree then you are wrong regardless of any contradicting fact-based evidence. And also, apparently I can't read. "Somewhere in my Memory" was nominated for an Oscar, not a Grammy, oops!
Who would've thought that the musical message would've been...crystal clear...
There was an incredibly strong musical foundation for this series. What happened?
Who could have thought that you could do so much with so little?
What happens when you get a kid from Brooklyn, a radioactive spider, and some leitmotifs and mix them all together?
Has the music in your favorite trailer ever sounded a little too familiar?
Have you ever wondered how they always managed to get that magical sound?
I am easily and frequently confused
This movie hit the ground running
Turns out the music has layers....
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good...
Attend the tale of the Dies Irae
What does it sound like in the Joker's head?
What happens when the soundtrack and the film accidentally tell the exact same story? You get Avatar: The Last Bluebender
Yoda deserved better
Follow the white rabbit. So with all the theory in this video, I knew I was bound to make a mistake at some point. In the part where I explain the whole/half step pattern in the diatonic scale I messed up the diagram a little bit, but what I said was still correct. Oops! Also, while I call it Serialism, the more appropriate term would be "12 tone technique." Serialism implies that it's doing something more than just 12 tone technique. Oops again.
Do you hear the people sing? Me neither
Long ago, all the leitmotifs lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire nation attacked
It's way better the second time around
This one takes a weird left turn at Singin' in the Rain
They don't, except for when they do. So I want to clarify what I said about Bach not writing the Toccata and Fugue in d minor. There's been a lot of discussion on the subject, and from everything I've gathered the answer is that this piece is one of the more anomalous in Bach's repertoire which, along with the lack of an original score written in Bach's hand, makes his authorship of the piece seem somewhat less that certain by a handful of Bach scholars. However, until there is more substantive evidence, the convention is to attribute this piece to Bach. So "Bach didn't write the toccata and fugue in d minor" may have been a little too strong here, maybe even misleading, and I just wanted to take a minute to completely clarify that point. The quote from Jean-Claude Zehnder is "The matter still remains open, despite the scholarly discourse that began in 1981. Until proof of the contrary, BWV 565 should be considered as a work by Johann Sebastian Bach." oops.
In this video I freak out about Cats holding hands
In this video I awkwardly rant about the Mulan remake not being good because Opera
No One Is Alone
You're never going to hear these the same way again.
The first time Goku ever went Super Saiyan, scored to Eric Whitacre's "When David Heard"
I see what you're doing Blizzard! ...and I like it
I was going through my computer and found something I just found that I made back when I was in college. Enjoy!